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Show WARM DEBATE LOOMS ON PACTS WASHINGTON. Mar. 4 The four-! four-! power Pacific treaties will be taken ! up Monda by the senate and discus-sea discus-sea virtually every day thereafter until un-til a voto on ratification ls obtained under a program said to have been agreed to at a conference today between be-tween President Harding and Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Republican leader. Administration spokesmen, It was announced, will open the fight for ratification of the treaties with Senator Sen-ator New Indiana, a close friend of the president and a Republican member mem-ber of the foreign relation committee speaking Monday, and Bejiator Kel-logg, Kel-logg, Minnesota, another Republican committeeman, and coniidant ol' tho president, Tuesday. Senator Lodge, It una r ,. : 1 a .v " :., vj, u.ou nui ouuh ji corn L j some of the arguments of the admlnls-i admlnls-i tratlon In support of ratification Prosident Harding was said to be I in complete accord w ith Sinatnr lodges plans for proceedings with the arms conference treaties. Their 'conference at the Whlto tiouss todaj J was said to have been to discuss procedure pro-cedure and inform the president as I to the situation, and the effect of lej;-llslatlVe lej;-llslatlVe matters also before the senate Administration leaders plan t, give I Immediate. tochmcal right of va to Ithe department of Justice bill to cre-I cre-I ate a number of additional federal I Judges, but Kubject to debato on the I four-power treats, it ir not Senator I Lodge's Intention to force the treaties j for the next few days, but soon, it was announced, the administration will puoh i hem to tho front and hold thorn before the senate to tho exclusion of all other business. It was stated that President Tim -ding concurs with Senator Lodge' program of giving the four-power treaty preoedenoe over tho naval. 1 j Chinese and other treaties of the arms ! ; conference. |